Parents grief turns to fury in China

[rchapstick]

Yes, now we are spending billions trying to prop up a non-existant Iraqi culture.

[Bangkoktraveler]

To bad the current administration has not had the foresight to help our own citizens that are in need, but instead try forcing 'Freedom and Democracy' down the throats of those who don't want it.

[Julian2]

Are you suggesting that they just replaced one murderous, undemocratic regime with another?

[Flashermac]

To bad the current administration has not had the foresight to help our own citizens that are in need, but instead try forcing 'Freedom and Democracy' down the throats of those who don't want it.

 

 

For some bizarre reason the US Congress has always been much more willing to give money to foreign governments than to spend on it on the American people!

 

 

 

[Julian2]

Boobus Americanus, the famous American taxpayer, has been long conditioned not to expect anything in return for his taxes.

 

Taxes are to be used to prop up "friendly" regimes, get corporations who make bad financial decisions out of the shit and to make sure that politicians of all political persuasions are well provided for.

 

Nothing like a vote to raise pollies pensions to get total accord in the house.

[Flashermac]

News from the next superpower:

 

 

Police in China break up protest by angry parents

 

 

DUJIANGYAN, China: The police surrounded more than 100 parents here Tuesday as the parents protested shoddy school construction that they said had resulted in the deaths of thousands of children during the recent earthquake here.

 

The police dragged away several crying mothers and harassed journalists trying to report on the event, according to witnesses and photos of the protest.

 

The standoff between the parents, many carrying framed photos of their children, and the police officers, dressed in black uniforms, lasted for several hours and ended with the parents walking off feeling both intimidated and frustrated, some of those involved in the protest said.

 

"Because so many police surrounded us, we couldn't do anything, so we went home," said one woman identified only as Li.

 

The protest took place outside a five-story courthouse in the center of Dujiangyan and was organized by parents who lost their children in the collapse of the suburban Juyuan Middle School. Most of the school's 900 students died.

 

 

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